Today, more students learn facts in school instead of understanding the ideas or concepts. Teachers only drive them remember those things in the books to get a great score in examinations. Explaining the theories is of more harshness and inefficiency. Whereas, in my opinion, the understanding of ideas and concepts is much more important than facts.

With the comprehension of ideas and concepts, students can learn and find the regulations of the world. This ability is of great significance in our study and life in the future. As teachers cannot always company and teach us, we have to explore the world on our own someday. After knowing about the regulations, we can finally analyze the facts or examples without the teachers or the professors’ help. Just like the old saying goes, ‘Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime’.

For instance, I used to learn the narrative methods during my college time. I can analyze every other narratives, novels or theatres, according to them once I completely understand the methods. For instance, when reading Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, I can talk about how Shakespeare tells the story and how he portrays the characters or flourishes the feelings with my knowledge of the basic concepts. Concepts are the best tool to help us living and learning.

On the other hand, learning the facts also has its advantages. The most important thing is that facts can help us understand the ideas quckly. During the course of narrative methods, my professor has also given Hugo’s facts as an example. Otherwise, it will be really difficult for new students to understand the textbook terms. However, I still believe that the understanding of ideas is still principal, while the facts are only accessory.

I contend that it will be more favorable to ourselves by writing to discuss controversial problems.

First of all, when writing e-mails, you will have a chance to consider about your expressions with caution. An inspection throughout your passage will help you to discover and revise some logical fallacies or commonsense mistakes. Whereas these errors may appear with higher frequency during a telephone call in a hurry. Furthermore, you will have enough time to search books and papers for information if there are any uncertainties. Nobody can remember all the details. It is necessary to check the statistics and examples using for your viewpoint. Thus your statement could become much more rigorous in the process, with fewer flaws to attack.

Another advantage of text messaging is that it remains accurate records of your contention and evidence. The text records can remind us of what we are pondering over if interrupted by trivialities. Following the prompts, it will be simpler to continue as soon as possible. In spite that voice messages also record your words, it is impossible to be exact as the texts. Speaking is more likely to cause a misunderstanding as the homonym and fuzzy voice through the microphone. Writing can convey a clearer meaning both to yourself and your partner.

Last but not least, it should be admitted that a telephone argument might be beneficial to our social skills. However, I assume that the dominant purpose of discussing controversial problems is not the talking tricks. It is more intended to stimulate our brains’ vitality and polish our capacity of thinking. E-mails have been more suitable to reach the goal. In telephone debates, it is hard to calm down and consider about others’ statement as insisting our own position. Therefore, the communications are easier to get into a meaningless quarrel, having nothing helpful to our brain exercise.